The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-18

An Attempt to Assassinate a Negro
in!McIntosh County-Bright Red Kao
lin Found Near Bainbridge--A Fight
with an Alligator in Montgom cry
County.
GEORGIA
Jack Slappey contemplates going into thu
manufacture of vinegar in large quantities
at Fort Valley.
The Waycross Headlight prints an eight
page trade edition which makes an excel
lent showing of the business interests of the
town.
The Fort Gaines Advertiser issued g
twelve-page trade edition which shows the
enterprise of the merchants of the town as
well OF that of the paper.
At Cedartown the firm of Moore & Beas-
ley has been dissolved. Tom Moore, of the
firm, has established himself at the old
stand of White & Marshall. Mr.. Beasley
occupies the firms old stand.
James Slater, of Hart county. has a cot
ton root, washed up by the freshet, that
is over eight feet long. This corroborates
the theory that cotton is often injured by
late blowing, breaking the lateral roots.
A number of commercial drummers who
visit Hartwell, have organed a scheme to
boy colt the Hartwell Hotel, and persuade
all travellers whom they car to not patron
lie the hotel, all for some. fancied griev-
ance.
A meeting was called at the court house,
at Villa Rica, Monday evening, and COM
pany of twenty-five young men was formed
TO join in the procession of young Demo.
Gratis at the Piedmont fair. These COM
panies are being formed all over the State.
Two fine mules belonging to Lum Fam
through, were drowned at the Seull Shoals
i'm Last LODI
The mules were hitched to a wagon and
were driven on the fat, when they became
frightened and dashed overheard into the
river.
Tuesday night last Mrs. iona Sanders, of
Lexington, was stricken with paralysis of
the tongue and throat so that she has been
unable to speak or swallow anything since.
Mrs. Sanders, now in her seth year, has
been cripple and invalid for thirteen years,
and she cannot survive this last affection
The New York directors of the Tallapoosa
Land, Mining and Manufacturing Company
will arrive in Tallapoosa the first of this
week, accompanied by representatives of
the New York and Connecticut press
During their stay they will complete ar
fragments for the grading of streets and
other city improvements.
Since they have begun TO gather it, many
Oglethorpe county farmers have discovered
unseen damages to corn by the food Aug |.
The butt end of the ears that were standing
erect have been found to be sour and rotten,
caused by the water which penetrated the
shuck and could not get out. Some farm
ers report considerable amounts lost in this
way.
Two years ago Col L. NJ FELTON,, OF Mar
shallville, bought two Jersey heifers, paying
over $500 for them Since then they have
dropped him four calves that are worth
considerably more than the cost of the
original pair. In addition these two Jer-
seys have produced an average of fifty
pounds Of bpster per month for the entire
two years.
A sow belonging TO DIR. John E. Walker,
of Greensboro, recently gave birth to a lit
ter of pigs. Among the litter was one of
uncommon size, and perfectly nude-not
hair TO be found on any part of its body
1t lived but few hours, although it was
otherwise perfectly formed and apparently
healthy Pig raisers are in doubt as to
what was the cause of the freak
Just at this season colored churches are
not 10th for preachers, for at almost every
meeting one is licensed to go forth and
preach mot always the gospel One of their
new made divines occupied the pulpit of one
OF Lexington'S colored churches the other
night and took his text from Somewhere
seben fat 'uns, upon which he delivered
lengthy discourse
What will perhaps prove a fatal shooting
occurred at Woodville Tuesday night
George McDuffie, negro preacher, waylaid
and shot another negro, Bill Cheney, infict-
ing, as the physicians think, a fatal wound
rIne weapon used was a shotgun. The en-
tire load entered the abdomen on the left
side OF the body, and it is thought pene-
trated the cavity. A woman is said to be
at the bottom of the trouble. The would
be assassin has thus far escaped arrest.
In Oglethorpe county there is general
complaint with growers ana picxers of cot
ton at the feathery ightness of the staple.
There has been 10 rain since il began To
open, which makes it as dry and light as it
generally is at the last picking, so that it
takes lot of 1t to make a bale ard big
days work to pick 200 pounds The staple
is good, though, and none of it is sampled
below middling, and most of it as good
middling. This compensates the grower.
Perhaps the oldest mule in Oconee or sew
eral other counties was driven into Wat
kinsville one day last week This mule he
longs to Jesse Butler and was given him at
Savannah at the close of the war by the
Yankees. Mr.. Butler rode the mule home
and has had him ever since and has worked
him regularly every year The mule is now
as quick and peart as most of the Young
mules MIR. Butler says the mule is twenty
SIX years old, being six years old when he
got him and he has had him twenty years.
In digging a well for water to supply the
engine which runs his saw mill, four miles
east OF cambridge, Mr. Lohr at depth of
thirty feet, discovered inexhaustible guam
Titles OF kaolin of bright red color that is
attracting attention The samples seen by
our informant contained not a particle of
sand, and was almost as tenacious and tough
as wax. From single lump of it a young
man in the employ of Mr.. Lohr carved a
perfect model of a house with doors, win
dows, apartments and all, complete, besides
number of other smaller things,
A hen in the yard of Rev l. w. Waddell,
OF Albany, after attending diligently to
business for the usual period ofincubation,
came Oft her nest with seven little chicks
one day last week. A few days afterward
she died, leaving the little chicks without a
mother. But there was AN old rooster on
the place that seemed to take in the situa
ton, and at once went to the rescue of the
motherless chicks The brood now follows
him around and he scratches for them and
clucks to them throughout the day, and
leaving his former roosting place among the
big chickens in the hen house, tenderly
hovers them under his wing at night.
Gath Lennon, of Montgomery county,
who was using one of Mr. Sharpe'S horses,
was riding along in the piny woods near
Mr.. Sharpe's house about dusk, n few days